Professor Michael Proctor ScD FRS FIMA
Professor Emeritus of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP ,
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Life Fellow and former Provost
of King's College Cambridge
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Chair of Assembly, CPRE
Emeritus Fellow and former Vice-Master, Trinity College Cambridge
Research Interests
My research is principally concerned with magnetic fields in the Sun,
planets and stars. My early work was on nonlinear models of the earth's dynamo
incorporating dynamical back reaction due to the growing field. More recently I
have worked on the interaction of convection with magnetic fields, with the aim
of understanding the structure of sunspots and solar surface active regions. In
the last few years I have studied the fundamentals of dynamo theory, offering a
critique of earlier approximate simplifying assumptions. I am also interested
in bifurcations and pattern formation in dynamical systems with symmetry.
Most recently I ahve been studying how the Maxwell-Cattaneo effect alters the
stability properties of conective layers with imposed magnetic fields and
double-diffusive effects.
CV and publications